Lung Cancer

The abiding terror of Tiffany Gilmore's story is that it turns on the utterly mundane act of swallowing an over-the-counter cold capsule at bedtime. Who hasn't done that? But when the Coopersburg woman took her medicine a week before Christmas 2013, something went terribly wrong, and by the next morning she was saying goodbye to her husband as doctors at Lehigh Valley Hospital prepared to put her into a coma. It was the only way she would survive the trauma of treatment, they told her, as she hurriedly scribbled her signature on paperwork giving her husband, Mark, the power to make end-of-life decisions. "I'll be back," she told Mark, before drifting into a two...

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COMMUNITY HEALTH EXPO
1 The Lehigh Valley Community Health Expo will be held noon-6 p.m. Saturday at the America on Wheels Museum, 5 N. Front St., Allentown.
Health-care organizations, nonprofits and community organizations will educate, demonstrate and...